merchant seamen
Cargo ship crews
Merchant seamen are sailors who work on commercial ships rather than naval vessels—carrying cargo, passengers, or operating fishing boats.
The term encompasses everyone from deckhands to officers aboard merchant marine vessels: Merchant seamen faced U-boat attacks during the war.
Also called merchant sailors or merchant mariners.
- freighterVessel for transporting goods
- deckhandShip's manual laborer
- sextantMaritime angular measurement device
- maritime lawLegal rules for seas
- boatswainShip's deck petty officer
tanker · chief mate · container ship · compass · docking · cargo hold · deep sea · navigation · steward · crew quarters · union hall · shore leave · sea legs · fo'c'sle · watchkeeping · man overboard · binnacle · lifeboat
- seafolkseafarers, sailors, mariners, boaters, yachters
- shippingshipping, cargo ships, container ships, freight, package
merchant seamennaval personnel
Maritime military workers
naval officers · marines · coastguardsmen · bluejackets · naval aviators
merchant seamenlandlubbers
Non-seafaring people, derisively
landsmen · longshoremen · dockworkers · stevedores · railroad workers
merchant, merchants, merchandise, merchandising, merchandiser, mercantile, commerce, commercial, commercially